1 Corinthians 14:2

One who speaks in a tongue speaks to God, not to people, since no one understands. Uninterpreted tongues remain mysteries to the hearers.

Cross-references · 29

• Mark 16:17These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new languages;
• Acts 10:46For they heard them speaking in other languages and magnifying God. Then Peter answered,
• Acts 19:6When Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke with other languages and prophesied.
• Acts 2:4–11They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.
• 1 Cor 13:2If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.
• 1 Cor 2:10But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.
• Col 1:26–27the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his saints,
• 1 Cor 14:9–11So also you, unless you uttered by the tongue words easy to understand, how would it be known what is spoken? For you would be speaking into the air.
• Eph 3:3–9how that by revelation the mystery was made known to me, as I wrote before in few words,
• Eph 6:19on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the Good News,
• 1 Tim 3:16Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.
• Rev 10:7but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, then the mystery of God is finished, as he declared to his servants, the prophets.
• 1 Tim 3:9holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
• 1 Cor 2:7But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,
• 1 Cor 14:18–23I thank my God, I speak with other languages more than you all.
• Col 2:2that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,
• Gen 42:23They didn’t know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.
• Deut 28:49Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies; a nation whose language you will not understand;
• Mark 4:11He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of God’s Kingdom, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,
• 1 Cor 15:51Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,
• Matt 13:11He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.
• Ps 78:2I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,
• Ps 49:3–4My mouth will speak words of wisdom. My heart shall utter understanding.
• Acts 22:9“Those who were with me indeed saw the light and were afraid, but they didn’t understand the voice of him who spoke to me.
• Rom 16:25—
• Gen 11:7Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
• 1 Cor 14:27–28If any man speaks in another language, let it be two, or at the most three, and in turn; and let one interpret.
• 1 Cor 14:16Otherwise if you bless with the spirit, how will he who fills the place of the unlearned say the “Amen” at your giving of thanks, seeing he doesn’t know what you say?
• 2 Kgs 18:26Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, Shebnah, and Joah, said to Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in the Syrian language, for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Jews’ language, in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”

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